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Self-selection into economics experiments is driven by monetary rewards

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2013

over-estimation of social preferences in the student population. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment … ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; social approval ; experimenter demand …

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Gender differences in shirking : monitoring or social preferences? ; evidence from a field experiment

Johansson, Per-Olov; Karimi, Arizo; Nilsson, J. Peter - 2014

. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence …

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Ability peer effects in university : evidence from a randomized experiment

Booij, Adam S.; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students - conditional on their ability - randomly. The data support a...

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Free-riding and knowledge spillovers in teams : the role of social ties

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016

We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a … second individual test after the conclusion of the experiment. …

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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016

We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

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The impact of self-selection on performance

Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018

-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes …

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Team incentives, social cohesion, and performance: a natural field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Onemu, Okemena Abraham - 2020

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …

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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024

several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships …

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Compliance behavior in networks : evidence from a field experiment

Drago, Francesco; Mengel, Friederike; Traxler, Christian - 2015

Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …

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